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Ding Dong?

5.20.08 @ 12:01AM

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I am wondering if we will have the courage to secede when this business of the North American Union is forced upon us. If they bring it up for a vote, here is one citizen who will "rebel yell" to "DO IT AGAIN!"
-- Darrell Wallace

ROUSHED TO JUDGMENT
Re: Mike Roush's letter (under "Pork is Tasty") in Reader Mail's Not Quite Wright:

Over a considerable length of time, I have considered Mike Roush the next thing to a DailyKOS denizen, and wondered why the Spectator publishes so many of his letters, while rejecting so many respectful conservative ones. Well, today I must recant, temporarily. The estimable Mr. Roush opines that, and I paraphrase here, the pork problem is not the elected politicians, Republican or Democrat. No, he says that the problem is us: that we want, nay, that we demand, that these politicians "bring home the bacon." Mr. Roush is absolutely, 100% right. The vast majority of Americans belong to the "I want it all, and I want it now" society. Gimmee, gimmee, gimmee!

The same Spectator "Letters" section contains a few letters regarding the gay marriage ruling from the California Supreme Court. Folks are questioning why the California "Supremes" went against the will of the people. See the people passed a ballot question, or amendment, relating to the subject. Sure, but the voters also keep in office a governor that applauded the ruling. Oh, and are you going to tell me that the California legislative delegation to Washington, or the California state legislature is, on the whole, less radically left wing? How do they maintain their offices. Hint: it is from the voters. Look, can we talk? An overwhelming majority of the California populace, including the voting populace, rightly belong in the "fruits and nuts" category. I have relatives in Tracy, California that try to tell me how conservative they are. Posh and Piffle. If the majority of Californians wanted it different, it would be different. It used to be that Northern Californians were the nut cakes, L.A., except for the Hollywood types, were fairly normal, and Southern California was the conservative part of the state. That is relatively speaking of course. Now Northern California is even nuttier and the rest of the state is virtually Mexico North. Oh, and of course, California is far from the first of the American states to go this "gay marriage" route. Have you heard of Massachusetts? Have you heard of Vermont? Do you pay any attention to the politics of Maine?

As for the "green" groups and the determination of the politicians to pander to them, I have relatives that moved out of Portland, Oregon to McMinnville Oregon a few years ago. I am quite familiar with what the "green" voters out there did to the lumber industry in which my relative had a good job. Now in the autumn of their time here on earth, they are having to scuffle to keep it all together. The point is that the voters of Oregon did it to themselves. They have not learned from their mistakes. They are moving even further Left. My relatives, living and dead, used to blame it on the Californians moving to Oregon. It may have started that way, but they are breeding their own tree hugging, America haters by the train load now. And I don't even want to get into the politics of the state of Washington, where it is a felony for a Republican to win an election in the western half of the state, particularly around Seattle.

You want to talk of the depressed and depressing state of affairs in Detroit and the whole of Michigan? Fine, who do you keep electing to office. I don't see the Daly machine taking any hits of significance in Chicago and its environs. The majority of voters seem quite content. And don't even talk about the Illinois Senators that keep getting elected time after time. Well, Obama is new, but his attitude and voting habits are not. Speaking of farm bills, how long has Harkin of Iowa been in office? I think that it is still the voters putting him there. I mean, we could go state after state, even among some fairly red states.

Face it, those of us that read and comment at websites like the Spectator simply are NOT the majority of the voting public. I have heard that the tachometers were removed from the caskets of all the American founding fathers. The RPMs were so high that they were constantly red lined. It is even rumored that John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey are having significant heartburn over the antics of their fellow party members, elected and unelected. So, on the theory that even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while, kudos to Mike Roush for telling it like it really is. We really have met the enemy, and he really, really is us. When the majority of voters change their demands, the elected politicians will change their agendas.
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

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